"The original stone building was begun in 1814 (finished in 1815) for use as a cotton spinning mill by the newly-formed Duplanty - McCall Cotton Company. Spinning operations began in 1816, and continued until 1821 when Duplanty - McCall failed,...

The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...

Complex chemical operations in the large tetraethyl lead unit at DuPont's Antioch, California plant are handled from a central control room. At operators' fingertips are 200 finely calibrated instruments that keep in balance the process that turn...

DuPont's Antioch, California plant is an outdoor maze of multi-level piping, chemical stills and process tanks inter-connected to run on a continuous basis. Piping is an essential part of tetraethyl lead manufacturing process. Because much of this...

DuPont's Antioch, California plant is an outdoor maze of multi-level piping, chemical stills and process tanks inter-connected to run on a continuous basis. Piping is an essential part of tetraethyl lead manufacturing process. Because much of this...

DuPont's Antioch, California plant is an outdoor maze of multi-level piping, chemical stills and process tanks inter-connected to run on a continuous basis. Piping is an essential part of tetraethyl lead manufacturing process. Because much of this...

DuPont's Antioch, California plant is an outdoor maze of multi-level piping, chemical stills and process tanks inter-connected to run on a continuous basis. Piping is an essential part of tetraethyl lead manufacturing process. Because much of this...

DuPont's Antioch, California plant is an outdoor maze of multi-level piping, chemical stills and process tanks inter-connected to run on a continuous basis. Piping is an essential part of tetraethyl lead manufacturing process. Because much of this...

Carrie Furnaces, Homestead Plant, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh District, Pennsylvania. View of cooling tank connected to some of the pig casting machines. Not all pig casters use this practice, most machines are quite long and...

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